Chapter 113

Vanessa powered her rental car, still reeling over what she had read. The text further vaporized into past she knew from a distance, an estranged traveler looking for traffic signals in thick fog, breathing mist for air and never finding what they were looking for. It was hard to concentrate at the road ahead in morning traffic. It was also always good to travel during busy hour of the day. Nobody notices anyone unless they create a ruckus. And she was farther from hysterics today. No, she felt right at home. Disappearing and running away were where she belonged. Never had she thought she'd find purpose in it again but here she was.

Seating her silver-grey sedan behind a towtruck, she opened the book again.

'Since wolves were now infected with same disease, their leader, Desmond Sr. had proposed a solution much like that for changelings. To open a an academy where wolves since their birth would learn to control their blood lust, their transition into civilisation would begin at early